Norridge Perceiving Pain in African Literature

2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-29205-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 239 Seiten, eBook

An analysis of literary accounts of suffering from sub-Saharan Africa, this book examines fiction and life-writing in English and French over the last forty years. Drawing on writers from the canonical to the less well-known, it uses close readings to examine the personal, social and political consequences of representing pain in literature.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Norridge, Z.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Introduction: Pain, Literature and the Personal Painful Encounters in Yvonne Vera's The Stone Virgins Between Minds and Bodies – the Location of Pain and Racial Trauma in Works by Bessie Head and J.M. Coetzee Women's Pains and the Creation of Meaning in Francophone Narratives from West Africa Writing around Pain – Personal Testimonies from Rwanda by African Writers Responding to Pain, from Healing to Human Rights: Aminatta Forna, Antjie Krog and James Orbinski Epilogue: Literature and the Place of Pain Works Cited Index

Über Autor(innen)

Zoe Norridge is a Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature at King's College London, UK. She has also taught African and Global Literature at the University of York, University of Oxford and the School of Oriental and African Studies. In 2011 she was named one of ten BBC Radio 3 and AHRC New Generation Thinkers.